i'd be pissed if that behemoth was blocking my shopping cart
My local Stop n Shop has one of these moving around the store and it's annoying as shit.
This is cool but it seems counterintuitive for walmarts global domination plans. Their strategy is to lower prices so all the other businesses die and then they're the only business in town and re raise them. All automating would do is make it to where the minor pittance walmart gives its employees is no longer there and I'd imagine people would tell walmart to gtfo.
Their name already brings a sour taste to many's mouths and people are looking for any excuse to tell walmart off right now. If walmart had any sense it would limit this to the coastlines.
I prefer Marty
https://youtu.be/6r-_HPDqB2Q
No worse than full bodied americans sitting in the middle of the aisle looking at how many calories their diet soda has.
They won't. I actually softlocked the one in my local WM by standing about 5 feet diagonally in front of it. It couldn't decide what it wanted to do, would randomly steer hard right only to detect it would run into a wall, steer full left, think it'd hit me, steer forward, twitch a bit, freak out because I 'might' come in front of it, and it just sat there until I moved.
Okay first of all, no true American is going to read nutritional information.
So instead of using their literal fucking billions to pay people a livable wage, they're outright replacing them, awesome. Unemployment is going to fucking rocket.
Called it.
Can't underpay people who no longer work for you.
I can see these getting vandalized so easily by people who shop there
true on the first part but I don't think anyone is gonna lose jobs over these isle sweepers. During the day walmart only has like 2 maintenance workers scheduled. This will just free them up to do actual work, like showing up to spill pages within a timely manner instead of having a associate guard a spill for 30 mins. These sweepers only go on a route on the floor using QR like codes on the ground and has to be manually driven in the back to be charged and washed out. I've heard if something fails it'll automatically just shut off and would require a maintenance worker to restart it.
I'm glad my mom manages an area that robots couldn't hope to manage, at least in the near future. My sister and her boyfriend on the other hand might have trouble with dealing with this crap.
It is 2025 and Cassie's Walmart robot helps her fix the car but malfunctions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzcuH9OTaA8
it is your civic duty to knock over all robots that you see
They're already replacing the majority of their cashiers, now this, too! At least robots can't stock. Yet.
Isn't this how Terminator began?
Well yeah. Crunch the numbers and it turned out to be cheaper to automate. You should be more surprised that it took them this long to finally implement these
Robots replacing low wage jobs is an inevitable future, the only question is how long it'll take.
We are getting these at my store. There's been leaked changes for further in the year that they plan to purge the majority of management positions in favor of small teams that do managerial tasks. Luckily they haven't done anything (yet) to the small guys here, Walmart is gonna change for the worse even more
It's really annoying that society (which we live in) is set up to make us fear automation. We should be overjoyed that no one has to do these menial tasks anymore.
Robots are going to need to pay income tax.
how are people going to make money to buy things if you replace them with robots
(p.s minimum income doesn't solve this problem)
It literally does though
wish I could replace all the shoppers with robots to be honest
minimum income to give them just enough to buy cheap food and clothes (and presumably drugs to drown their sorrows)
Unless it's, you know, a larger sum than that.
Automation is new. We can't look to existing examples for how things might look in the future, because nothing like this has ever happened before.
Imagine losing your job to a fuckin robot
we'll just get new menial tasks of making sure these things don't break, get pushed over, and maybe watch over a few emergency shotguns for when they rebel
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